Hitting newsstands shortly, TIME's "50 Best Inventions" issue spotlights some of the most amazing new ideas and innovations from the past year. If you're a TIME subscriber, you can already see the article online right here.
Of course, many of the inventions highlighted are infused with a heaping helping of technology and, as such, have made appearances here on Techland over the course of the year.
Here's a look at five of them from the 50 that made the cut.

Lytro Light Field Camera

Say hello to Lytro, a new consumer-grade camera capable of focusing on multiple points in an image with eye-popping accuracy after you’ve snapped the picture. We first heard about it this summer, and now it has a release timeframe: early next year.

Siri is not a new invention. Like another person posted, Siri is Iris spelled backwards and it was running on other mobile platforms way before Apple even got into the smartphone business Nothing apple does is new! I'm surprised they aren't taking credit for inventing mobile maps now that they released a their own maps app and we have all seen how good that works. Follow where the maps take you and you will drive off a cliff! I'm all for competition but apple is way overrated and I was an Iphone owner because I wanted to try it out and it was a miserable experience being on a limited and closed OS .Even after jailbreaking my phone felt locked down. Year after year they come out with these big, overrated announcements about devices, apps, and features that have been around for years on other devices running Android, Windows Phone and even some features that we saw way back on Windows Mobile. People need to stop being ignorant and Istupid and do some reading and research and see for themselves that Apple products are overpriced, overrated and is not the cutting edge of technology, Apple just copies from others, say its their baby and markets the hell out of it.